TELEGRAM TO A. A. JOFFE[1]

Published:First published in part in 1942 inLenin Miscellany XXXIV.

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Incode29. V. 1919

Rakovskyfor JoffeCouncil of People’s Commissars of the UkraineKiev

Readthis telegram to Rakovsky, Mezhlauk, Voroshilov,
Pyatakov, Bubnov, Kviring and other prominent
functionaries.

Iconsider it criminal on your part to have persuaded
Trotsky to leave Podvoisky.

Nota single promise is being fulfilled: the Donets Basin
has no reinforcements; the mobilisation of workers is
proceeding at a disgracefully sluggish pace. You are
personally responsible for the inevitable catastrophe. All
prominent functionaries must be taken off their jobs and
installed in Kharkov and Ekaterinoslav for the total
mobilisation of workers; further, one prominent functionary to
be sent to each army unit for its advance to the Donets
Basin; and everything set in motion for clearing out
uniforms from the stores. The ruin of the entire revolution
is absolutely inevitable unless there is a swift victory in
the Donets Basin, for which it is essential to abandon
routine in the Ukraine, to work in a revolutionary spirit,
to rally all and sundry, to keep an eye personally on each
army unit, each step in the work, to set aside everything
except the Donets Basin, to have three soldiers to one
rifle. From you not one factual report.

[1]Transmittedby direct line.—Ed.